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Australian Olympic 800 metre runner Peter Bol and table tennis player Milly Tapper – the first Australian athlete to compete at both an Olympics and Paralympics – helped launch the new partnership at an event at Federation University’s Mt Helen campus on 6 November 2019. Image credit. Federation University.
Passion to profession Anne Louise Williams looks at the development of the next generation of sports leaders Many International Baccalaureate (IB) schools are aware of, and indeed participate in, the World Academy of Sport (WAoS) Athlete Friendly Education Centre (AFEC) initiative. Schools are accredited as an AFEC when they demonstrate the requirements of providing exceptional support to their high-performing student athletes. These IB World Schools are then able to offer the Diploma Programme over an extended period for their student-athletes. WAoS has now partnered Winter
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with Federation University, Australia to offer jointly an IB Careerrelated Programme, International Sports Management (ISM). Anne Louise Williams from WAoS recently caught up with Dr Sue Brown, Programme Director ISM, Federation University, and Chris Solly, Managing Director WAoS, to understand more about this partnership, why the programme will be of interest to schools, and what it provides for students. Their responses to her questions are as follows.
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